Re: Americans... help me understand your voting minds
Macharius Send a noteboard - 04/09/2012 02:59:24 PM
1. The candidates almost undoubtedly market 'change' as the reason to vote for them. I will change this, I will get America where it should be. Do you believe them?
Yes, but it all depends on where they think the country should be. Typically, it's where ever their campaign financiers and special interest lobbyists tell them to go - which is not in harmony with what most voters think (or don't think). Which is meaningless, anyways, since anything the President wants to do has to go through Congress (and all the Reps and Senators each with their own financiers and lobbyists in turn) which is where initiatives get changed significantly from what was originally intended or founder completely. Voters tend to ignore this, though, when considering President.
2. Do the candidates deliver? Is there a President in your lifetime who has delivered and really made you glad that you voted for him? Or is it all the same old until they get into the White House and everything remains pretty standard.
No, they don't "deliver". Yes, it's all promises and then they get elected and ignore every single one of them. They have corporate paymasters to satisfy, after all.
3. Does the candidate matter that much to you or do you vote for a party and their policies most times?
I vote for who I consider to be "less bad" than the other. I voted for Obama in 2008, but will likely be voting for Romney this year.
4. How is the quality of your leadership changing? Are your leaders better or worse than 20 or 50 years ago?
I feel that it's unchanged, but contemporary leadership is under a great deal more scrutiny of their every action by the current media environment so every minor flaw or error is amplified vastly out of proportion with its meaning.
Americans... help me understand your voting minds
- 04/09/2012 07:19:54 AM
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Re: Americans... help me understand your voting minds
- 04/09/2012 02:59:24 PM
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OMG, that is both insightful and infuriating. I am, by turns, perplexed, angry and sexually aroused.
- 04/09/2012 11:37:45 PM
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I'll be totally honest, which may get me some flack.
- 04/09/2012 03:03:52 PM
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Re: I'll be totally honest, which may get me some flack.
- 04/09/2012 03:58:36 PM
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But could you imagine either one taking the second slot on that ticket? *NM*
- 04/09/2012 04:11:58 PM
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The meanness and partisanship has always been there, especially in DC, however.....
- 04/09/2012 04:18:29 PM
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I think it's funny your reply has more than twice as many views as mine. 
- 04/09/2012 04:08:49 PM
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- 04/09/2012 04:08:49 PM
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I guess a lot of people have you on ignore! 
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- 04/09/2012 04:26:56 PM
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- 04/09/2012 04:26:56 PM
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Or I'm boring? 
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- 04/09/2012 05:49:14 PM
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- 04/09/2012 05:49:14 PM
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I know the feeling.
- 04/09/2012 07:42:35 PM
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that is because she logged out and hit refresh over and over to make you look bad
- 05/09/2012 02:58:28 AM
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Re: Americans... help me understand your voting minds
- 04/09/2012 09:30:35 PM
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Sorry, but I only gloss over most of what you say.
- 05/09/2012 03:39:28 PM
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the belief that the GOP is out to get him in a central pillar to the Joel universe *NM*
- 05/09/2012 03:57:49 PM
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Stephen is basically right on the first point.
- 05/09/2012 08:39:22 PM
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Thanks for clarifying, Joel. *NM*
- 06/09/2012 01:31:31 PM
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NP, thanks for asking and listening.
- 06/09/2012 02:39:54 PM
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On that note (liberals hating America).
- 07/09/2012 05:35:40 PM
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I (usually) do not think it intentional; unfortunately, that rarely mitigates the harm.
- 07/09/2012 06:12:56 PM
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